Economic planning: the kind that’s concerned with how we organise our entire economy … In capitalism the singular goal of profit animates economic decisions. How Companies Plan the Economy, Youtube 30.49, Second Thought 2023
We need a plan for how to continue living on this planet, meeting our needs, organising ourself collectively to manage our material requirements and our well-being. ibid.
Market capitalism is stuck in a constant boom and bust cycle that throws millions of people into sudden poverty. ibid.
Insider: ‘Starvation wages’: Walmart and McDonald’s among firms with the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, according to a Bernie-Sanders-commissioned report. ibid. Grace Dean 19th November 2020
Walmart is the epitome of capitalist business practices. ibid.
Walmart looks a lot like a country with a planned economy. ibid.
It’s capitalists escaping the markets’ negative consequences as much as possible, and giving themselves more predictable outcomes than markets provide. ibid.
Walmart: Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment. ibid.
Each book examines the financing and the contributions made by Wall Street by international bankers to the development of that specific form of socialism. Antony C Sutton: interview 1980, ‘The Best Enemies Money Can Buy’, Youtube 39.59, 2012
The Soviets were supplying the North Vietnamese 1972 … The Gorky plant which was built by the Ford Motor Company … We were supplying equipment to the Gorky plant … I thought this was morally wrong. ibid.
The original financing of Hitler in the years 1922 came only partly from Germany. One of the most prominent Americans concerned with financing Hitler was Henry Ford. ibid.
Amongst the corporations that transferred money to Hitler I find not only I G Farben, which is quite widely known, but also German General Electric, AEG, which is under control of General Electric in the United States … Osram … Standard Oil … ITT … American corporations financed Hitler through their subsidiaries. ibid.
In practice the German General Electric plants were not bombed. ibid.
The Ford plant in Cologne should have been a prime military target. ibid.
Every single Russian industry was rebuilt or restarted by foreign corporations. ibid.
Averell Harriman came out of the Soviet Union financially with a profit. ibid.
At any given moment roughly 10,000 Boeing aircraft are in service in more than 150 countries. Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, 2022
2018: And then two planes drop out of the sky. ibid.
Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts & Others. ibid. The Wall Street Journal
Boeing would not publicly consider that something was wrong with the design of the aeroplane. ibid.
‘We are going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all fights of 737Max8 and the 737Max9.’ ibid. Trump
‘Expecting more with less … We saw the company change before our eyes.’ ibid. ex-employee
‘Over time the lazer focus on safety that had been traditional was compromised.’ ibid.
‘Boeing whistleblowers have said that anybody who reported a problem at the South Carolina plant was either fired or let go or moved on.’ ibid.
‘Widespread pattern inside Boeing of deceitful behaviour.’ ibid.
Amazon: The world’s biggest only retailer. Their founder is one of the richest men on the planet. The Great Amazon Heist, Channel 4 2023
Amazon patented cages for workers to work in in 2016. ibid.
For a while now trouble has been brewing between Amazon and sections of its workforce. And it was all coming to a head here. Coventry. ibid.
Amazon has reacted pretty badly to workers trying to form a union in the past. ibid.
They didn’t really trust their own staff at all. ibid.
It felt like we were being surveilled at every second. ibid.
‘I got back pain we well. Standing for 10 hours.’ ibid. Employee
Amazon was hotter on surveillance than health and safety. ibid.
Amazon are flooding the world with piss [bottles ejected by drivers] ibid.
Amazon don’t actually pay much tax. ibid.